Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.

- Taylor, Sid

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.

Proverb, Camerounian

He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

Epictetus

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Kraus, Karl

Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.

Taylor, Sid

A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

Noll, Chuck

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

Cato The Elder

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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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The testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple. [Psalms 19:7]

Bible

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Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.

Proverb, Chinese

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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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The wise man says it cannot be done, but the fool goes and does it.

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Basho, Matsuo

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.

Larson, Doug

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The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Blake, William

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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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What a wonderful world this would be if there were as many wise people as there are clever people.

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The live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart.

Bhagavad Gita

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

Adams, James Truslow

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.

Cheever, John

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More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

Buddha

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Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Saroyan, William

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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Coolidge, Calvin

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A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

Thurber, James

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Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.

Socrates

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When you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike, there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you life in the wisdom of the Self.

Bhagavad Gita

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Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

Ziggy

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A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know -- and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know -- even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction -- than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.

Asimov, Isaac

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It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

Levenson, Samuel

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To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn vos Savant

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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.